Software Developer - Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - HEO

Location

Bristol, Swansea, Nottingham, Birmingham, Leeds, Yeading, Newcastle, Oldham

About the job

Job summary

This will be a key role in the design, build, support, implementation and improvement of digital services, products, and platforms across DVSA. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team using Agile delivery methodologies, delivering solutions that meet user needs.

You will be committed to quality and will use quality software engineering techniques within the team, such as code review, design review, reusability of code, refactoring, automated testing, and use of standards

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Job description

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Building digital services and software solutions to serve a variety of user’s needs and complying with the Digital by Default service standard.
• Software development using Agile methodologies (particularly Scrum) as part of a dynamic team of other developers, testers, business analysts, product owners and scrum master’s to deliver quality software solutions.
• Developing solutions that put the user and user experience first.
• Creating a culture of collaboration between development teams and business partners to establish and enable accelerated delivery models.
• Analysis, specification, design, development, testing and release of bespoke applications for use within DVSA using TypeScript, JavaScript/HTML/CSS
• Unit testing of developed code
• Working collaboratively while learning from and supporting other members of the Scrum team
• Supporting the creation of standardised documentation (test strategy/test scripts, technical release)

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience in application development using a recognised programming language ideally TypeScript/JavaScript CSS and HTML skills, agile methodologies, version control, and DevOps.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques and share knowledge with peers and juniors.
• Experience in system support and maintenance.
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to negotiate with and influence senior stakeholders effectively, articulating complex technical matters to non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication skills including reports and technical specifications.
• Experience of using testing to validate solutions.